Hi all,
I first used Knoppmyth over a year ago, with analog tv cards, and was very happy with it. I have just started using mythtv again after buying a prv 500 just for this job.
I am in the UK and have 2 STBs one SKY and one Virgin/NTL, I use one mceusb2 with 2 blasters to control them, and they are connected to the PVR-500 using a scart adapter to svideo, and red and white audio leads.
My problem is that when I start live tv, everything is in black and white. I immediately thought PAL, so I set my STBs to output pal, then went through the PAL options in mythtv-setup one by one, restarting mythtv-backend each time before testing. Every option gave me black and white, so I changed the output of the STBs to RGB, and tried each of the PAL and SECAM seatings again, still no luck.
After some searching here and on ivtv wikis and forums, I have changed my /etc/init.d/set_ivtv_params file as per the hints and hazards thread. I have also turned off VBI.
when I run v4l2-ctl while watching live tv it seems that the card is already using pal
Code:
root@mythserv01:~# v4l2-ctl --all
Driver info:
Driver name : ivtv
Card type : WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
Bus info : 0000:03:08.0
Driver version: 2050
Capabilities : 0x01070051
Video Capture
VBI Capture
Sliced VBI Capture
Tuner
Audio
Radio
Read/Write
Format:
Type : Video Capture
Width/Height : 720/576
Pixel Format : MPEG
Field : Interlaced
Bytes per Line: 0
Size Image : 131072
Colorspace : Broadcast NTSC/PAL (SMPTE170M/ITU601)
Format:
Type : Sliced VBI Capture
Service Set :
Service Line 0: /
Service Line 1: /
Service Line 2: /
Service Line 3: /
Service Line 4: /
Service Line 5: /
Service Line 6: /
Service Line 7: /
Service Line 8: /
Service Line 9: /
Service Line 10: /
Service Line 11: /
Service Line 12: /
Service Line 13: /
Service Line 14: /
Service Line 15: /
Service Line 16: /
Service Line 17: /
Service Line 18: /
Service Line 19: /
Service Line 20: /
Service Line 21: /
Service Line 22: /
Service Line 23: /
I/O Size : 0
Format:
Type : VBI Capture
Sampling Rate : 27000000 Hz
Offset : 248 samples (9.18519e-06 secs after leading edge)
Samples per Line: 1440
Sample Format : GREY
Start 1st Field : 6
Count 1st Field : 18
Start 2nd Field : 318
Count 2nd Field : 18
Video input : 1 (S-Video 1)
Audio input : 1 (Line In 1)
Frequency: 6400 (400.000000 MHz)
Video standard = 0x000000ff
PAL-B/B1/G/H/I/D/D1/K
Tuner:
Capabilities : 62.5 kHz multi-standard stereo lang1 lang2
Frequency range : 44.0 MHz - 958.0 MHz
Signal strength : 99%
Current audio mode : lang1
Available subchannels: mono lang2
also dmesg seems okay
Code:
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.8.2 (tagged release) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.18-chw-13 SMP preempt mod_unload 586 gcc-4.1
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:08.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
lirc_mceusb2: Philips eHome USB IR Transciever and Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control driver for LIRC v0.26
lirc_mceusb2: Daniel Melander <lirc@rajidae.se>, Martin Blatter <martin_a_blatter@yahoo.com>
usb 2-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
lirc_mceusb2[2]: SMK eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb2:2
usbcore: registered new driver lirc_mceusb2
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) as /class/input/input1
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
tuner 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tda9887 1-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner)
tuner 1-0060: TEA5767 detected.
tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tuner 1-0060: type set to 62 (Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio)
tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 23559, rev D491, serial# 8751340
tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx 91, type 56)
tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K) (eeprom 0x74)
tveeprom 1-0050: second tuner model is Philips TEA5768HL FM Radio (idx 101, type 62)
tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
tveeprom 1-0050: has radio, has no IR remote
ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
cx25840 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG
ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV
ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI
ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio
ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
tuner 1-0061: type set to 56 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FQ1216AME MK4))
ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1), card #0
ivtv: ====================== NEXT CARD ======================
ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:09.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
tuner 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
tda9887 2-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner)
tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
cx25840 2-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 23559, rev D491, serial# 8751340
tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx 91, type 56)
tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K) (eeprom 0x74)
tveeprom 2-0050: second tuner model is Philips TEA5768HL FM Radio (idx 101, type 62)
tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
tveeprom 2-0050: has radio, has no IR remote
ivtv1: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second unit
ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2)
ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
ivtv1: Registered device video1 for encoder MPEG
ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV
ivtv1: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI
ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM audio
tuner 2-0061: type set to 56 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FQ1216AME MK4))
ivtv1: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2), card #1
ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
here is my /etc/init.d/set_ivtv_params file
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Set the ivtv Parameters
########################################################################
IVTVCTL='ivtvctl'
IVTVDIR='/etc/sysconfig/ivtv'
V4LCTL='v4l2-ctl'
#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Default values, if not specified in $IVTVDIR/cfg-*
IVTV_DT='1' # Tuner input,
IVTV_DF='PAL' # tuner format [NTSC|PAL]
########################################################################
[ -d "$IVTVDIR" ] || exit 1
PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
# See how we were called:
case $1 in
(start)
cd $IVTVDIR || exit 2
for g in $(echo cfg-*) ; do
f=${g#cfg-}
unset IVTV_TUNER IVTV_RATE IVTV_PEAK IVTV_TYPE
source cfg-$f
case $IVTV_TYPE in
"") IVTV_TYPE=$IVTV_DF ;;
NTSC) IVTV_TYPE=ntsc ;;
NTSC-M) IVTV_TYPE=ntsc-m ;;
NTSC-J) IVTV_TYPE=ntsc-jp ;;
NTSC-K) IVTV_TYPE=ntsc-kr ;;
PAL) IVTV_TYPE=pal ;;
*) IVTV_TYPE=`echo "$IVTV_TYPE" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` ;;
esac
# $IVTVCTL -d /dev/video$f -u $IVTV_TYPE
# $IVTVCTL -d /dev/video$f -p ${IVTV_TUNER:-${IVTV_DT}}
# $IVTVCTL -d /dev/video$f -f width=720,height=576
# $IVTVCTL -d /dev/video$f -c dnr_mode=0,dnr_temporal=0
$V4LCTL -d /dev/video$f -s $IVTV_TYPE
$V4LCTL -d /dev/video$f -i ${IVTV_TUNER:-${IVTV_DT}}
$V4LCTL -d /dev/video$f -v width=720,height=567
$V4LCTL -d /dev/video$f -t stereo
# $V4LCTL -d /dev/video$f -c mute=0 # This _SHOULD_ work, but...
$V4LCTL -d /dev/video$f -c temporal_filter_mode=0,temporal_filter=0
done
;;
(stop) # don't do anything on stop.
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/set_ivtv_params {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
########################################################################
# End
and /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv
Code:
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
alias char-major 81-0 ivtv
#options ivtv debug=1
#options tuner type=45 tuner=45
options msp3400 once=1
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa7115; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv
remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -r saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 && /sbin/modprobe -r tuner
Are there any other files that I have missed, or is there something I should be setting in one of these files? It seems everything I try just gives me a black and white picture. could it be something other than PAL? please any help would be usefull.
the rest of the system is
Intel Celeron 2.2
Gforce FX 5200 PCI
1gig ram
thank you
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